My new and yet to be collected MX5
Discussion
Hi all, first ever readers cars post so go easy on me!
First off let’s start with my car history.
Ford Ka
Ford Fiesta
Seat Ibiza Cupra diesel (x2)
Lotus Elise S s2 (not the supercharged one) loved it.
Lotus Elise S 1.6 s3, hated it!
Mini coupe Cooper S
Lotus Europa s
BMW Z4 28i
BMW 240 convertible
Citroen c3 aircross (sorry)
Toyota Auris Hybrid
Toyota Yaris
And now I have a deposit down for an MX5 nb Arctic edition.
I have heard a lot of horror stories regarding rust and being of absolutely no mechanical mindset this was very much bought on a buy the seller basis. A cracking chap who was happy to point out the bad parts, the work he had done and the work he had paid for. This thing has all receipts going back to brand new!
Onto the car 54 plate with 56,000 miles. Clean MOT this January. Bought for the asking price of £2500. Seller also included the original exhaust, the original rear lights, and metal bootlid luggage rack.
Bit of rust to be sorted
And a bit of sill clean up and maintenance
I think all things considered I got an absolute bargain at £2500, didn’t even seem fair to barter with him!
Need to sell the Yaris, buyer is lined up but lost v5 so requested another one dvla last Thursday. Once that is sorted I will go and pick it up.
Would love to hear your comments positive or otherwise and your thoughts on whether I’m right and that was a bargain!
First off let’s start with my car history.
Ford Ka
Ford Fiesta
Seat Ibiza Cupra diesel (x2)
Lotus Elise S s2 (not the supercharged one) loved it.
Lotus Elise S 1.6 s3, hated it!
Mini coupe Cooper S
Lotus Europa s
BMW Z4 28i
BMW 240 convertible
Citroen c3 aircross (sorry)
Toyota Auris Hybrid
Toyota Yaris
And now I have a deposit down for an MX5 nb Arctic edition.
I have heard a lot of horror stories regarding rust and being of absolutely no mechanical mindset this was very much bought on a buy the seller basis. A cracking chap who was happy to point out the bad parts, the work he had done and the work he had paid for. This thing has all receipts going back to brand new!
Onto the car 54 plate with 56,000 miles. Clean MOT this January. Bought for the asking price of £2500. Seller also included the original exhaust, the original rear lights, and metal bootlid luggage rack.
Bit of rust to be sorted
And a bit of sill clean up and maintenance
I think all things considered I got an absolute bargain at £2500, didn’t even seem fair to barter with him!
Need to sell the Yaris, buyer is lined up but lost v5 so requested another one dvla last Thursday. Once that is sorted I will go and pick it up.
Would love to hear your comments positive or otherwise and your thoughts on whether I’m right and that was a bargain!
They have all been my only car. The 1.8 Elise i found really suited with with low down torque whereas the 1.6 needed to be thrashed. Not necessarily a bad car just completely unsuitable for how i like to drive. It also had the sport or track suspension, i forget the option name, and it just egged you on too much again whereas the 1.8 moved around a semi sensible speeds and I just found more fun.
Ok so it is now home with me. Drive home was fairly uneventful until I came to park up.
In my defense I was very tired from a long day at work.
Drove home with the roof down, parked up and went to latch the roof and no matter what i did i could get the passenger side to latch, the previous owner said it was stiff. So gave it a bang.
Yep i had forgotten to lower the sun visor so that has a big dent in the plastic where i crushed it, obviously didnt manage to latch the roof luckily. Realised what i did and sorted but could probably do with a new sun visor.
Also it has the motorised aerial which to my eyes looks naff and will need changing soon.
Apart from that all good. It drives tight, engine temp stayed in the middle, oil temp between the middle and the next indent but didn’t move so hope that is normal?
Need to get the rust looked at still!
In my defense I was very tired from a long day at work.
Drove home with the roof down, parked up and went to latch the roof and no matter what i did i could get the passenger side to latch, the previous owner said it was stiff. So gave it a bang.
Yep i had forgotten to lower the sun visor so that has a big dent in the plastic where i crushed it, obviously didnt manage to latch the roof luckily. Realised what i did and sorted but could probably do with a new sun visor.
Also it has the motorised aerial which to my eyes looks naff and will need changing soon.
Apart from that all good. It drives tight, engine temp stayed in the middle, oil temp between the middle and the next indent but didn’t move so hope that is normal?
Need to get the rust looked at still!
Sheetmaself said:
They have all been my only car. The 1.8 Elise i found really suited with with low down torque whereas the 1.6 needed to be thrashed.
Thanks for the reply. I get torque. The use of peak BHP as a metric in PH discussions seems a bit silly to me as it's about torque and torque curves to me. My motorcycle allowed me to pull away in third gear after I'd stalled having got to the head of queue after some filtering, which I am not that confident at. Regarding the sunvisor issue I may have a talent for breaking my own stuff that didn't need breaking.
Hopefully the important bits aren't rusty. It's unfortunate MX-5s do the traditional British 'sports' car thing that authentically.
lost in espace said:
We had an NB for a while, make sure you have decent tyres on it. Good fun.
This exactly ,and while your there replace all the old tired suspension components, it will be costly but will transform how the car drives, sadly on my NC, I did everything else first including rust and brakes first,and had an unexpected spin during some slightly spirited driving and wrote the thing off, I am sure if I had Done the suspension I would still have it today. It is the sort of car that definitely eggs you on to go sideways everywhere bit like my old MK2 escort. Have fun enjoy it . 
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